All Malayalees should watch it in the theatre itself.
First of all you can blindly take the ticket solely because of Blessy, considering the previous movies directed by him,
I watched yesterday itself. And it absolutely brilliant. They wouldn't had any doubt in the reception of plot as every Keralite might be well aware of the Novel even though majority don't have reading habit, but still people might have known about the plot in the Novel and it is a real story.
Making it a movie, is also not that herculean task when thinking,
But making it beautiful definitely needs skills from Director, actor Prithviraj and all crew.
It would be easily winning the National Award for sure,
But I don't think it can have that perfection to be into the winning of Academy Awards in the best picture category.
Why I said this is some scenes if you compare with Academy award winning movies, you will easily find the lapses in technical brilliance.
One scene is that when the hero and heroine lay down one over another over the river water, it is very much felt that some kind of platform is placed on the surface of the water, Hollywood makers never miss to get the perfection in each scene, you take the example of any academy award winning movies, you can understand that
After perfection they consider the outcome of the movie as a whole, like inspiration and all.
For the example in the year 1994
Shawshank Redemption couldn't win the award competing to Forrest Gump,
Even though Shawshank was scene by scene master piece, Forrest Gump won the award because of its outcome after leveling the perfection of making with the Shawshank.